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someone inclined to waste time or be slower than others in a group

Yes we will, though you're laggard in asking me, sir.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger

"Highgarden and Storm's End support his claim, and the Dornishmen will not be laggardly.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
It rides ahead of your laggard will.
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
"By the way, sire," said Gossip Coictier, "I had forgotten that in the first agitation, the watch have seized two laggards of the band.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Twilight had long fallen when a little company of laggards, their SS escorts urging them to make haste, passed the building where I was still hiding.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
They caught the seed virus and passed it on, finally, to the Laggards, the most traditional of all, who see no urgent reason to change.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
I am no laggard, Uncle; for I have been stirring nearly an hour, and exploring our island.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
The lessons of yesterday had been that retribution was a laggard and blind.
Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage
It is a close night, though the damp cold is searching too, and there is a laggard mist a little way up in the air.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
"It is very extraordinary," said this noble laggard, "but this is the first time that I have ever been in Paris for more than three or four weeks."
Henry James -- The American
Even so in pursuit was Agamemnon, forever killing laggards as they fled.
Homer -- The Iliad
The Cats and the Windblown are swarming through the hills with lance and lash, driving them north and cutting down the laggards.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
The squishers are apt t' take the laggards."
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
"Malluch is a laggard to-night," he said, showing where his thoughts were.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
Throughout that first year at the Beijing Dance Academy, I was considered a laggard by most of my teachers.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
You'd better catch up with the queen, younglings; she does not take lightly to fools or laggards.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
By the late innings of the game the rest of the room—a few laggard coals glowed orange beneath the fireplace grate—lay sleeping in soft, quiescent shadows.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
If there are laggards, they'll have to wait until tomorrow to get in.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
It awaited the family laggard, who found any sort of inconvenience (to others) less disagreeable than getting up when he was called.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
It was like watching a dance, everyone making the same movement at once, except for one or two laggards who were out of step.
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising

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